Thursday, February 11, 2016

I AM A “TRUMP-ETER”

I
like Trump, and I make no bones about it.The things he says are things that I can agree with, regardless of how
that might rub the politically-correct the wrong way.

Frankly, as has been said many
times before, political correctness has run amok and should be severely
curtailed…but I digress.

Being
for Trump doesn’t automatically mean that I agree with EVERYTHING.His refusal to attend the GOP debate here
recently was a bad move in my not-so-humble opinion.Oh sure, you can have a feud with someone,
but if it’s doing to do some serious damage to you personally, your business
or, in this case, your political aspirations, you keep it quiet and try to settle
it outside the public’s view.By the
way, I like Megyn Kelly because she is a straight shooter, but now and then she
lets personal opinions cloud her objectiveness…and that’s bad journalism in my
estimation.

Let’s
take a quick look at Donald J. Trump(and yes, that’s his real name and his real
hair) and how he got to be where he is.He was born in 1946, and while growing up he worked for his father in
the real estate business.His children
freely admit that, even with all the wealth, the growing-up process was no
cakewalk.They had to work, and work
hard, and there were no special privileges shown.The Donald, as his former wife Ivana, called
him, has never shied away from taking chances, changing wives or making it
known that he likes being wealthy.

His
recent statement about refusing Muslims admittance to the United States
drew a firestorm of protest…mostly from people who don’t, or won’t, understand
the illegal immigration problem that the current administration has
created.Yes, people have been sneaking
into the country over the Southern border for years, but the current
administration is actually importing people from all over the world, by the
hundreds of thousands…and no one truly knows much, if anything, about them.The strategy behind this movement is
simple…people that get a free ride in this country will remember who made it
possible and when they get the vote(and they will eventually), they will vote
Democrat.

Trump
is called a populist and I’m not really sure what that means, but he pushes my
buttons when he talks.He has a platform
that appeals to the concerns of working-class voters who feel displaced by job
losses and changes to America's
ethnic and religious demographics.Strengthen the military, improve the conditions for veterans, not just
defining our borders but building a wall that will deter illegals from entering
the US, not just balancing the budget but reducing the overwhelming deficit,
have a moratorium on Muslims coming to this country, finding and deporting
Muslims(and others) who have overstayed their visas…those are just a few things
in which he’s shown an interest.

Trump
is not exactly a stranger to politics either.He had previously considered running for president. In 2000, he ran an
exploratory campaign and won two Reform Party primaries but didn’t carry it
forward.He’s of German extraction and
attended New York
Military Academy,
During his senior year, Trump participated in marching drills and wore a
uniform, attaining the rank of "cadet captain".In
2015, he told a biographer that NYMA gave him "more training militarily
than a lot of the guys that go into the military".Trump was eligible for the draft during the
Vietnam War. In a 2011 interview on WNYW, he stated, "I actually got lucky
because I had a very high draft number."Trump was deemed fit for service after a military medical examination in
1966 and was briefly classified as 1-A by a local draft board shortly before
his 1968 medical disqualification.Trump attributed his medical deferment to
"heel spurs" in both feet, according to a 2015 biographer, but told an Iowa campaign audience he suffered
from a spur in one foot, although he could not remember which one.

He
began his career at his father's real estate company, Elizabeth Trump and Son,
which focused on middle-class rental housing in the New
York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten
Island.In 1972, the Trump
Organization sold Swifton Village for $6.75 million, which the Trumps had
bought for 5.7 million in Cincinnati
in 1962.In 1971, Trump moved to Manhattan, becoming
involved in larger building projects, and used attractive architectural design
to win public recognition.Trump made
plans to acquire and develop the old Penn Central for $60 million with no money
down.Later, with the help of a 40-year tax
abatement from the New York City
government, he turned the bankrupt Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt and created
The Trump Organization.

Brashness
is a quality that Trump exhibits and it seems to be good for him and not quite
as good for his opponents.Maybe he
won’t be the Republican nominee, but I’ll always think that he should have
been.